Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

MONTREAL, Sept. 25.

Mr. Editor--It is not my province, as a civilian, to say if any, or to what extent, the disgrace may be, which almost every one appears to maintain, has fallen on our army, by the late unaccountable proceedings in the Plattsburg affair; but there is one circumstance so extraordinary in itself, that I defy it to escape the attention, either of civilians or military men; I allude to the movements made by Gen. Izard, with two thirds of his regular force, from Plattsburg to Sackett's Harbor, at the very moment the arrangements were completed by our governor in chief for his grand operations; and although his excellency's movements, with near twelve thousand of the finest troops on earth, (Wellington's troops) must have been known to the enemy, yet strange to relate, the circumstance appears rather to have accelerated, than retarded Gen. Izard's progress towards Sackett's; a proof that the enemy either thought that his whole force was too weak to be sacrificed to so overwhelming a one as that under his excellency's orders, or that Gen. Izard, knowing his *** [man] left Gen. Macomb with his 1500 troops, regulars and militia, at Plattsburg, for the purpose of effecting what has happened: whilst he (Gen. Izard,) seized the golden opportunity, hastened to replace the troops sent from Sackett's, by the shores of Ontario, to Niagara, so as to enable Gen. Brown to overwhelm the efforts of the right division, ere it could receive the necessary succours for its support from the province. Thanks to an overruling Providence, however, who has as yet, permitted only a part of the enemy's plans to succeed; the troops of the right division (few in number to be sure) have shewn themselves brave, with unlimited confidence in their chief; because the actions of that chief, abundantly prove his attention to have been directed more to the preservation of their honors, as British soldiers, than of preserving their lives, at the expense of even a suspected loss of character. I expect Mr. Editor, you will insert these common observations in your next Herald, and oblige a

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